“Can you summon your talent at will?” is a line Al Pacino delivers to Keanu Reeves in an iconic, windswept rooftop interview scene in the movie ‘Devil’s Advocate.’ I saved the memory of that question to use to motivate myself when my momentum falters, my inspiration goes on vacation, my drive seems stuck in neutral.
Mood is a capricious, erratic source of energy, never relied upon by anyone who aspires to a life beyond the basest of mediocrity. To get the job done, you don’t have to feel like it; you just have to do it, and I’ve found that most of the time starting creates the mood, lights the fires of inspiration. Instead of waiting for a creative spark, act in anticipation of energy and it will flow to you.
Closing Quotes:
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King, b. 1947
“I only write when I’m inspired. Fortunately, I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” – William Faulkner, 1897-1962, Nobel Prize for Literature (1949), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1955 & 1963)
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t necessary like to do them either however their dislike is subordinated to their will to succeed.” – Albert E. N. Gray
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
